read harddrive from macbook pro 2015

[dml5i]

I have a non-functional MacBookPro 2015. I would like to take out the hard drive and read it with an external hard drive reader connected to a windows 10 laptop.

I have an external hard drive reader that works with windows formatted hard drives but I am not sure if it will work with a MacBookPro hard drive. What do I need to do to read the hard drive and recover the data?

 

[alter_ohm]

i have no practical experience with reading from macbook pro 2015 ssd, but i think you need an "apple ssd" drive reader like the "owc envoy pro". see https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MAU3ENPRPCI/

if the internal ssd is encrypted i don't know if the owc drive reader will be of any use at all. if its not encrypted you need software to read a hfs or apfs formatted partition like macdrive, paragon hfs/apfs for windows or biskus apfs capture. just for reading hfs+ there is also the free catacombae hfsexplorer.
for linux there is also an apfs fuse driver: https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse

 

[Fishrrman]

Before going further....

What is "nonfuncttional" about the MBP?

Could you tell us EXACTLY what order of events you see when you press the power-on button?